In February, Fifa president Sepp Blatter called for retrospective action on players who dive, fake injuries and time waste.

He wrote in the organisation’s monthly magazine: “Video evidence can be used for serious breaches of the principle of fair play such as brawling, spitting at opponents, verbal insults and racist slurs, or for incorrectly awarded red or yellow cards. In cases such as these we must make use of the avenues already open to us and intervene after the event if necessary.

‘In this context, we should include the faking of injury, intentional diving or time-wasting in our considerations.”

Blatter expressed disappointment that existing bodies were not using the rules to take retrospective action.

In 2012 Fifa vice president Jim Boyce said that diving was becoming “a little bit of a cancer in the game”.

Mr Boyce declined to comment when contacted by BBC Sport.

The Dutch FA, KNVB, have released a statement claiming Robben’s comments were misinterpreted by the media and that he actually said he “fell too easily”.

1 Comment

Samanta

July 03, 2014

I say FIFA should act, I mean it’s not fair what Robben did I mean it’s not like his first time doing this, there are others videos were it shows him diving, I mean yes there was contact but not like so he can fall so dramatic like if he was pushed which he was not so my point is that it’s not fair that FIFA is allowing this I mean if he did this during the World Cup then his going to do it again,again, and again just to get attention from the referees, and plus the referees weren’t fair at all, in my opinion and in others out there I say Mexico should get a second chance I mean because it’s not fair how they give Robben a penalty for something that wasn’t so big like if he was injured, I just hope FIFA takes action and does something because what they are doing is not showing good examples to soccer plus in the FIFA book does is not say you are not allowed to dive. I’m just saying it’s not fair what FIFA doing!!